In Dennis the Menace today there was this exchange:

Martha (to George): You sound vilious.

George: I'm not vilious.

I'm probably spelling it wrong, but I can't find anything by searching for the word. I tried searching with 2 L's and nothing that way, either.

At the time he sounded like he was going off the deep end about not wanting to put out the trash, and wanting to go to some faraway place to fish.

Does anyone know what this word means and how it's spelled? I've never heard it before.

I remember Martha saying this before, but I was not exactly sure what it meant. I thought that maybe it had something to do with being confused.


bil·ious

1.
affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting.
"I had eaten something that didn't agree with me and I was a little bilious"
synonyms: nauseous, sick, queasy, nauseated, green about the gills, liverish; More
informalbarfy;
rarequalmish
"I woke up feeling bilious and with a raging headache"
(of a color) lurid or sickly.
"a bilious olive hue"
synonyms: lurid, garish, loud, violent; More
sickly, nauseating, distasteful, unattractive
"a bilious green and pink color scheme"
antonyms: muted, subtle
2.
spiteful; bad-tempered.
"outbursts of bilious misogyny"
synonyms: bad-tempered, irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humored, peevish, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, crusty, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, liverish, cross-grained; More
informalcranky, ornery
"his bilious disposition"

Thanks! It would have helped if I'd noticed it was b, not v.

I used to have a problem distinguishing between the sound of B and V. I thought someone’s name was Barney and it was Varney. Bilious Fever is what took the life of Abe Lincoln’s son.